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account has recently been published by Mr. Mark Sullivan in the Boston 

 Evc/ii/ig Transcript of loth October 1900, from which the following 

 summary is taken : — 



The bison now surviving are reckoned up under thirty distinct head- 

 ings ; the total number being estimated at 1024. In the majority ot cases 

 the numbers are accurate, but this is not so with regard to those running 

 wild near the Great Slave Lake, in the far North-West. The estimate of 

 these is given at 200, and this has been arrived at by a process of 



Fig. 68. — Cow American Bison at Woburn Abbey. From a photograph by the 



Duchess of Bedford. 



averaging. But it is only fair to add that by some authorities the number 



of these wood-bison is put at not more than 100 or even less ; and as they 



are hotly persecuted by Indians, their numbers appear to be steadily 



diminishing. Apart from these and certain bison reported to survive in 



Colorado, twenty dit^erent herds are known to exist in America, the largest 



of which is the Allard herd, at Hathead Lake, Montana, which numbers 



259. Next to this comes the herd of Mr. J. Goodnight, in Armstrong 



county, Texas, which includes i 10 head. Under the head ot "scattering" 



fifty are entered, which includes odd specimens here and there. 



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